Hey you techie types.
Could anyone tell me in English how I can mirror 2 external hard drives. If that is not the right term what I want to do is, when I back up anything to external hard drive A it will also go to B.
Does that make sense?_________________Dinnae fash yersel (don't worry yourself)

Hey you techie types.
Could anyone tell me in English how I can mirror 2 external hard drives. If that is not the right term what I want to do is, when I back up anything to external hard drive A it will also go to B.
Does that make sense?

Yes, you will need to find a RAID compatible external hard drive system. From there, the manufacturer should tell you how to configure the drives to mirror the disks._________________Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Hey you techie types.
Could anyone tell me in English how I can mirror 2 external hard drives. If that is not the right term what I want to do is, when I back up anything to external hard drive A it will also go to B.
Does that make sense?

Yes, you will need to find a RAID compatible external hard drive system. From there, the manufacturer should tell you how to configure the drives to mirror the disks.

Hey you techie types.
Could anyone tell me in English how I can mirror 2 external hard drives. If that is not the right term what I want to do is, when I back up anything to external hard drive A it will also go to B.
Does that make sense?

Yes, you will need to find a RAID compatible external hard drive system. From there, the manufacturer should tell you how to configure the drives to mirror the disks.

Dumb question #1
Is that software or hardware?

RAID can be either, in your case though you're looking for software (unless you have deep pockets).

My guess is that someone here can point you to some free software that does what you're looking for. You'll need to specify your operating system.

Hey you techie types.
Could anyone tell me in English how I can mirror 2 external hard drives. If that is not the right term what I want to do is, when I back up anything to external hard drive A it will also go to B.
Does that make sense?

Yes, you will need to find a RAID compatible external hard drive system. From there, the manufacturer should tell you how to configure the drives to mirror the disks.

Dumb question #1
Is that software or hardware?

Well technically both. You will need a external HD system with 2 drives in it. That's the hardware. Then there will be software that will control the RAID, ie mirroring, of the drives. You will need an enclosure that has 2 drives in it. Try googling for usb raid storage. It's not cheap to do. Expect to put a few hundred bucks into this._________________Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

I've seen software RAID done in some Windows environments, although I can't recall exactly which ones. I've not seen it done with external drives, but I don't see why it couldn't be done.. It's just finding the right software._________________Hmm...

You may be able to use SyncToy from Microsoft to do what you're looking for. I did a little reading on it and installed it, but I don't have the same setup that you do so I'm not entirely sure if it will work for you or not.

You may be able to use SyncToy from Microsoft to do what you're looking for. I did a little reading on it and installed it, but I don't have the same setup that you do so I'm not entirely sure if it will work for you or not.

You may be able to use SyncToy from Microsoft to do what you're looking for. I did a little reading on it and installed it, but I don't have the same setup that you do so I'm not entirely sure if it will work for you or not.

I've been playing with this tool extensively over the last few weeks. And while it is very cool and works well, it does not work as a native service. In other words, you have to actually tell it to do a synch.

While SynchToy cannot maintain a live, up to the second mirror, it does have a command line interface and can be scheduled using the Windows Scheduled Tasks in the Control Panel.

I've been interested in this tool for backup reasons. I've got a Windows server. It contains four drives in two pairs. Each pair is mirrored with RAID on the motherboard to give me redundency. I then use SynchToy to mirror data on the four drives above to an external USB2 drive. It's not a perfect system. But it's better than the average user doing NO backups and it's cheaper than maintaining a set of SCSI SCA servers by a long shot.